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From: Kris Anderson <ciscoaix@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: NTPD not keeping time
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--- John Webster <jwebster@es.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> --On Friday, December 01, 2006 10:23:17 -0800 Chuck
> Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Dec 1, 2006, at 9:56 AM, Kris Anderson wrote:
> >> Darn the system time strayed over night. One
> thing I
> >> failed to mention is that freebsd is running on a
> >> virtual machine.
> > 
> > Sigh-- you're right, you should have mentioned
> this before.
> > 
> > One should not attempt to change the clock from
> within a virtual  machine at all, only in the parent
> or host OS.  VMs depend on the  host OS to provide
> the timekeeping, and it is known that systems 
> running inside a VM may experience timing glitches
> as
> > a result of  running inside the machine emulation.
> 
> 
> 
>
<http://ntp.isc.org/bin/view/Support/KnownOsIssues#Section_9.2.1.>

Having read that, my guess is that I should just
disable ntp and reboot the system. Just so that all is
well in the world. I'll give that a shot the next day.
*sigh*

Thanks. :)


 
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